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Dani Hane has been running track since her freshman year in high school and successfully avoided the 400 meters until her senior season.Now, she calls it her best event. Hane, a co-captain for the Quakertown girls track team, won the 400 -- along with two other events -- last week in Quakertown's 99-1/2-41-1/2 victory over Cheltenham. The victory was a big step for Quakertown, seeking its first Suburban One Liberty Division title since 1994. When the season began, coach Jack Sabol asked Hane to switch from the 100 -- her former favorite -- to the 400. She took to it admirably.

East Stroudsburg University senior Drew Miller has been named the PSAC Men's Field Athlete of the Week for the second time this year for his performance at Lock Haven's Elliston Invitational, which included two national qualifying marks. Miller reached the NCAA Division II automatic standard in the triple jump with a mark of 50-8 3/4, tied for the fifth best in the nation this season, and had a provisional mark of 23-11 3/4 in the long jump, tied for 11th on the national list. Both performances on Saturday were career bests.

By Tom Housenick SPECIAL TO THE MORNING CALL - Freelance | May 15, 2009

Alyssa Lombardo knew what she had to do in her offseason training regimen after winning a District 11 gold medal last year with a record-setting time in the Class 2A 400: Work out longer, harder, faster. The outcome, she figured, would be even better results. She was right. The Saucon Valley sophomore turned in another district record-breaking performance in the 2A 400 Thursday at Whitehall's Zephyr Sports Complex and did herself one better. She broke the 29-year-old school record with a 56.91 burst.

Moravian College junior, Abigail Schaffer of Easton has won a national title at the 2011 NCAA Division III Outdoor National Championships at Ohio Wesleyan University. Schaffer's win gives Moravian its 15th individual championship title, and earned ten points for the Greyhounds which tied them for fourth.4 Other Moravian athletes to compete include sophomore Micah Leonard, who will participate in the triple jump at 5:20 p.m. And senior Eric Woodruff will compete in a final on Saturday, possibly two with the preliminaries of the 100-meter dash this evening at 7:30 p.m. Woodruff hopes to become the first Moravian student-athlete with three individual national titles.

The gold medal seemed as if it might melt in Liberty senior Eric Eggleston's hand, the way he kept looking at it, caressing it. For the last two years, he had left the District 11 Class 3A Track and Field Championships with a silver medal in the triple jump. All that changed Wednesday afternoon, despite breezy conditions at Blue Mountain High. Again, the determination was there. Only this time, the result was grand. Eggleston's second mark of 45-31/2 earned him the triple jump title and an automatic trip to the PIAA Track and Field Championships next Friday and Saturday at Shippensburg University.

Anita James wanted to finish her high school career with a gold medal at the PIAA Track and Field Championships. But the Pocono Mountain West senior couldn't complain about her actual results -- three silvers and one sixth-place medal -- considering the logistics of her situation. For one thing, James competed in four events -- Class 3A long jump, triple jump, 200-meter dash and 400 relay -- which always makes for a grueling weekend at Shippensburg. On Friday, the opening day of competition, she ran heat races for the 200 and relay and participated in preliminaries and finals for long jump.